Results 39,201-39,220 of 40,550 for speaker:Joan Burton
- Finance Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: No, I am not.
- Finance Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: Good.
- Finance Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: When will it be paid?
- Finance Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (8 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: Deputy Kelly is not doing badly.
- Order of Business. (8 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: The Minister for Finance, in last night's debate, declared that the Government has made a decision not to undertake a cost benefit analysis on tax breaks for psychiatric hospitals, institutions and mental care centres. This is in stark contrast to what the Taoiseach just stated. There is no opportunity to debate this in the course of the Finance Bill.
- Order of Business. (8 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: We are objecting to it being guillotined because we have no opportunity to discuss this really important issue of tax breaks for investment in Irish psychiatric health care.
- Order of Business. (8 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: On a point of order, many of the amendments will not be reached on Committee Stage.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: Where?
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: However, 20,000 of those families are gettingââ
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: A total of 20,000 of those families are getting a second or third home.
- Leaders' Questions. (8 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: Will tax breaks be provided for them?
- Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (7 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: Question 303: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs when it is proposed that Ireland will ratify the 2005 Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings; if his attention has been drawn to the serious concerns in respect of the trafficking of women and girls into Ireland for the purposes of sexual exploitation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4144/06]
- Finance Bill 2006: Second Stage. (7 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: The publication yesterday of the report on tax shelters revealed in an extraordinary way the extent to which nine years of Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats Government have succeeded in creating an amazing two-tier tax structure for Irish society. The Labour Party has repeatedly demanded two principal changes to our tax structures to restore some sense of fairness. We propose the...
- Finance Bill 2006: Second Stage. (7 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: After nine years we have an enormous number of schools classified as disadvantaged. One must remember what disadvantage in education is ultimately about. Let us leave the teachers out of it and think of the children who attend a disadvantaged school, asking ourselves how many will secure good, well paid jobs and how many will go on to university. Particularly if they are boys, the answer is...
- Finance Bill 2006: Second Stage. (7 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: It is a valuable industry employing many people. It is a globally competitive industry which should be encouraged. The other side of the story was that, officials from the Revenue Commissioners and a few officials from the Minister's Department, clearly indicated abuses of the scheme. A public debate and public knowledge about incentives should lead us to examine the arguments for a proposal...
- Finance Bill 2006: Second Stage. (7 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: I will finish on this point. As regards yesterday's report into the extraordinary largesse of the pension arrangements for higher income individuals, is the Minister proposing that the existing â¬100 million schemes â the seven case studies in the report â should be capped or limited? Is the Minister trying to close the stable door after these particularly valuable horses have bolted?
- Leaders' Questions. (7 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: That was six years ago. It is six years since Mr. McCreevy opened that loophole.
- Leaders' Questions. (7 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: It was well known around town.
- Leaders' Questions. (7 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: Some â¬25 million went into a pension fund.
- Written Answers — Legislative Programme: Legislative Programme (2 Feb 2006)
Joan Burton: Question 50: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when he expects to publish the long-promised Coroners Court Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3508/06]